u/SlightlyLessHairyApe

Of course it was. Enrichment after school is the most common workaround for lack of enrichment in school.

Falafel Stop is legit.

> A large part of high quality childhood learning is not scripted or programmed by adults.

This is exactly my point. We force smart kids spend all day in school then do an hour of Kumon afterwards. No time for boredom or unstructured activities.

So you’re right about at least two things.

Childhood itself is a scarce good. Forcing smarter children to waste time in school and then do enrichment afterschool is depriving them of the time they could spend being kids.

I know I said this in another thread, but the appropriate strategic response here is to triple down on the fact that ability tracking is the most equitable solution by a large margin.

The alternative is that opportunity to go faster and farther is confined to those whose parents are wealthy enough to send them to out of school enrichment. Russian math, Kumon, all that.

The narrative that somehow equity is at all served by these sort of policies is completely bonkers. Opposition needs to be focused on that, first and foremost.

This is of course the massive irony of it, you have policies that are notionally about equity, but the result is that enrichment is only available to the wealthy.

Ability tracking is just about the most pro equity and pro social mobility policy you could imagine

Making the ballot and somehow being retroactive instead of applying as of January 1, 2027.

Whatever one can say about the political issue of the tax, making it retroactive does a fan pretty basic notion of fair notice.

I’m sure there are others with a fully ready to go contingency plan to move in November, and challenge its application to them on the basis of retroactivity

Worked to actually raise revenue — probably not.

Worked as an agent of factional politics — absolutely

Sure, but if that’s the standard, we never eat anywhere

Blue Sky is good

You aren’t lighting fires inside a building, it’s being drafted through free air.

No worse than a tent — probably better unless your windows are open.

I spent many summers in a camp where we had outdoor wood fires many times a week.

Not a single person was that sensitive.

It’s a bummer dude, I’m sure it really did bother you. But it isn’t typical

Except we engineered broccoli without all those bitter compounds decades ago!

Which suggests that the focus of the study should be on the psychological component and not the chemical/nutritional one.

What you’re claiming is that there isn’t some intrinsic thing in a Pringles can that makes it worse for health. Is the interplay between the thing and the human appetite.

That I buy, but we have to stop giving explanations at the wrong level

Sorry dude, but it really is just you.

Not tryna be insensitive, but facts are most people aren’t that bothered

Well, obviously what we need is another intermediate layer which lazily builds each of those 144 combinations on first use and then caches in for later

/s

It measures exactly what it measures.
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It’s in the summary. Numerically even

In a better world, none of this stuff would depend on public image.

In the world that we do live in, public image does matter. A lot of the success of the same-sex marriage movement was to emphasize that proponents did not want to dismantle the entire institution, they wanted to be a part of it.

My personal take is that this is also true of the vast majority here that want only mutual respect, but there is a very vocal minority that seems to explicitly want to tear down and destroy.

Yes, they are still primary voters, if they vote in the primary

It turns out that the decision rests with primary voters, not the party.

Nah man, we didn’t need him

Because discretionary policies always favor the connected — or those that can buy off the connected.

This is very clearly Claude with excellent guidance and feedback.

Insurers are also consolidating and, in many places, have a 2 or 3-opoly.